State Budget: Achieved by threatening to use budget extenders. [Nick Confessore and Thomas Kaplan]

State Budget: “Revolutions in the Middle East and a nuclear tragedy in the Far East have gobbled up media space that in normal years would have been devoted to exploring how Cuomo’s budget cuts could hurt senior citizens and poor kids.” [Chris Smith]

State Budget: “The budget doesn’t contain any caps on local property taxes, a key campaign promise of the governor’s.” [Jacob Gershman]

State Budget: “Cuomo got almost everything he sought in the budget and a boost for any 2016 presidential aspirations he might harbor.” [Ken Lovett]

State Budget: “The final budget still cuts New York City more than ever before,” said Bloomberg. [Ken Lovett and Glenn Blain]

State Budget: “The budget agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of the state Legislature would restore $272 million – or about 18 percent – of the $1.5 billion in education-related cuts that Cuomo proposed in his budget, according to the governor’s office.” [Michael Gormley]